1. Myron "Mike" Kellin was an American stage and screen actor.
14 Facts About Mike Kellin
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Mike Kellin won an Obie Award for his performance in the original Off-Broadway run of American Buffalo, and was nominated for a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Pipe Dream.
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Mike Kellin was known for his starring role as Chief Petty Officer Willie Miller on the 1960's television sitcom The Wackiest Ship in the Army.
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Mike Kellin was educated at Boston University and Trinity College in Hartford.
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Mike Kellin served with the Navy as a lieutenant commander during World War II, and after the war, studied acting and playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
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Mike Kellin made his Broadway debut in 1949 in At War with the Army and repeated his role in the 1950 film version with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
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Mike Kellin worked in some 50 plays and won an Obie Award for his work in American Buffalo and earned a Tony nomination in 1956 for his acting in the musical Pipe Dream.
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In 1966, Mike Kellin appeared in "The Deadly Games of Gamma 6" episode on Lost in Space as Myko.
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Mike Kellin appeared in "The Thirty Fathom Grave" episode of The Twilight Zone and as a Southerner in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "Night of the Owl".
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In 1966, Mike Kellin married actress Sally Moffat, daughter of actress Sylvia Field.
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Mike Kellin was active in the Fortune Society, a prisoners' rights group.
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Mike Kellin died on August 26,1983, from lung cancer in Nyack, New York, at the age of 61.
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Mike Kellin's interment was at Emanuel Synagogue Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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Mike Kellin was very active in television and was a regular on:.